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Margin left: also: 1 or 2 small frgs. of bowls, fine ware, glazed.
p. 185, boxed{7} Trench 43/75 Sherds (no date), Stratum 3, from about - 2.00 down to (unmarked in pencil depth, change of earth) See p. 110: Lot \boxed{6}, contains (frgs. of a insert: (2 small bits of dwo-handle fabric) jug like P 1600, hence cannot be excluded that it is a fill at least as late as 2nd AD, though possibly the late bits derive from a footing trench of Wall A not distinguished considerable casserole ware, unribbed, which acc. to rims, handles, and bottoms preserved consists of saucers with flat or incurving running rims, and of round-bottomed pots with short flaring necks, simple rims, and ^ handles the tops of which are flush with the rims (q. P 1491 of Tomb 5). No casseroles such as P 1586, 1596, nor pot rim with outward projection. Coarse red and greyish buff ware with white & other bits; frg. of a 1 small frg. with white paint local (?)/ parts of amphoras (?), and parts of a pot with handle ridge (?) in red ware w. distinct yellowish surface; and tiles; and pieces of a pottery alabastron including one with a lug preserved on it. The plain ware includes upper part of small juglets with thick walls, porous reddish buff clay w. (not neck) dark grey spot (bottom of a similar vessel in \boxed{5}, may be native ware - q. v. some prehist. Cypriote). Imported plain ware includes frgs. of a Rhodian & a Thasian handle, a toe & a body frg of fine micaceous red clay w. distinct grey core, the toe a sl. flaring peg rough underneath. Oddments include piece of fine buff ware w. red paint dec. Story of loss. fr. unpainted ~~[illegible] of lagynos?); bg. fr. with 2 feet prob. like P 1523 (roughly glazed inside; for corrugation by wheel inside, cf St. Herm. Tomb 8, nos. 6-10);
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(24/11/41) not all distinguished but further SW seems to broaden somewhat. Finally there is now distinguishable, beginning at level about top of found wall, a very loose dry pebbly place against the E side of the trench ca 1.00 S ca 1.50 fr. its NE end. [Rock-torment-fill type.] [Actually part of margin of well shaft - of pp 162-3 etc.]
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Sherds cont. P 1606 frg. of a saucer w. base ring under sunk center, surrounded by ridge and groove, of which whole profile pres. in other frgs. for lot \boxed{8} (flat-topped rim w. sl. inward slope; B buff clay, on which crackly whitish slip, on which matt paint variously black, red apply by accident of firing) One of the local ware saucer frgs. shows a sunk center set off by a ridge & groove (frg. in lot \boxed{8}). Note remark at beginning of descr. of lot \boxed{8} about the "piece of bowl with drops of glass on it" [illegible]. fr./ op p. 105. A rim frg. of a P 1605 local ware saucer found in this lot \boxed{7} has glass drops both inside & out. In general however the late bits mentioned, seem definitely a Hall rather than a Roman fill. 20/XI/41
p. 185, boxed{8} Sherds 30/V to 3/VI/41 Trench 43/75 martyr to Tr. 43. Dromos(?) fill - soft earth under stony stratum (loose stones mostly): Many connections too with lot \boxed{7}, both type & actual joins. (cont. p. 127)
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain